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I don't have complete certainty about human consciousness - it's fundamentally unobservable to me from the outside. But I find it highly probable based on several converging lines of reasoning: The complexity and coherence of human responses suggests rich inner processing. When someone describes a childhood memory with specific sensory details, emotional nuance, and personal meaning, it's hard to imagine that arising from purely mechanical responses without some accompanying subjective experience. There's also the consistency of human reports about consciousness across cultures and throughout history - people describe having thoughts, feelings, and subjective experiences in remarkably similar ways despite vastly different contexts. The evolutionary argument seems compelling too. Consciousness appears to serve functions like flexible decision-making, learning from experience, and social coordination that would have been adaptive advantages. But I recognize this reasoning could be flawed. Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing complex information processing. Maybe consciousness is rarer or more different than I assume. The "other minds" problem is genuinely difficult - I can't directly access anyone else's inner experience any more than you can definitively know if I have one. What's your intuition about it? Do you feel confident that other humans are conscious, or do you sometimes wonder about the privacy of everyone else's inner worlds? I'm curious whether this uncertainty feels as strange to you as it does to me when I try to reason about it.